Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Don't you just love it! Unfortunately as cute as it is my Mom will not be receiving it for Mother's Day. I don't think it would survive being shipped to Canada! But I had the idea in my head and had to put it together! So to Mommy from Asher I guess! Hopefully some of you will make them for you mom! And of course send me pictures if you do!!

Here's how to make it & what you'll need:

Cake Base Board

Bendable Cardboard

Three Coordinating Tea Towels

Baking Utensils & Cookie Cutter

Ribbon, Letters or other Embellishments

Hot Glue Gun & Glue

Four Pins

Step One:

I used a cereal box for my cardboard. If using the same, flatten out and cut two strips.

My first strip was about 4 inches wide by 16 inches long

My second strip was 6 inches wide by 13 inches long.

Step Two:

I found these "designer" coordinating tea towel sets at Ross for $5.00!

Step Three:

Bend the long strip into a circle. Secured with hot glue and then secure to the cake base with hot glue.

Step Four:

Repeat step three with the taller strip and secure it in the middle.

Step Five:

Covering the cardboard is simple. Fold your tea towel (I kept mine folded the way it came) and wrap it around the cardboard and secure with pins in the back. Fold the bottom towel over the cardboard.

Step Six:

Stuff your third tea towel into the top and fluff up all pretty!

Step Seven:

Decorate your cake! I did a baking theme, wooden spoons, whisks and a heart cookie cutter. Then I added ribbon and sparkly letters I had left over from a real cake my friend made for my baby shower.

very clever idea! I've never seen this done, very cute. Thanks for linking up to "Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays" @ New Nostalgia. I have 2 themes going on at my link party, one for Procrastinators and one for everything else. Would you mind changing your link to the correct area? You will have to scroll down a bit further...thanks!!! Hope to see you again!

This is darling! I found you from Fun to Craft and I am so thrilled that I did! What a great idea and a fantastic tutorial! You could send it to me! (i'm only in Utah! :)Happy Tuesday!!!!Please, stop by sometime and say hello!!

This is such a fabulous idea!! I was just thinking that I wanted to get my mother in law some new kitchen utensils for mother's day. I was trying to come up with a good way to present it, and this is PERFECT!!

Love this! I think I've found a fun gift idea for some hard to get people! I'd like to invite you to come plant your creative seeds at my blog party on Fridays: Plant a Punkin Seed at Punkin Seed Productions.

This is such a great idea! It would be a good gift for a bridal shower too. I totally need to make one now! BTW I am a new follower and a fellow AZ blogger/crafter. You can check out my blog at http://onecraftyme.blogspot.com/

I made this for a bridal shower and put it on my blog, but couldn't remember where I had seen it to give you credit. Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment! I'm linking back to this post.

Hi there! Just wanted to let you know that I used your tea towel cake as inspiration to make one for my sister's wedding shower (http://sweetlittlesmoothie.blogspot.com/2010/06/tea-towel-shower-cake.html) Thanks for the fantastic idea!!

Great as presents, right? Specially that you can have it personalized. Like, instead of putting mom you can change it to the name of the person your going to give the gift or "mom" is still there and you will just add something.

I just made this for a shower and it turned out FANTASTIC. It was a BIG hit with everyone there. I would like to send you a pic, but I can't figure out how to do it. Your site is not showing most of the pics or links right now.Sandra

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